Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Indigenous rugby union team to tour US with far north Queensland player on board
ABC Local
Having been selected to tour America as part of the Indigenous Australian Invitational Rugby Team (IAIRT), far north Queenslander Kai Lowah is about to leave Australian shores for the first time. "I've always wanted to go to [America] but I didn't ...

Lawyers Weekly
ABA 'shocked' at Indigenous imprisonment rates
Lawyers Weekly
The Indigenous Australians with Mental Health Disorders and Cognitive Disabilities in the Criminal Justice System (IAMHDCD) Project at UNSW also found that Indigenous people were 2.4 times more likely to be in juvenile custody than non-Indigenous ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Profit and procurement will push indigenous development
The Australian Financial Review
So why hasn't Australia been able to generate economic development for a few hundred thousand people during that same period? It's not about a shortage of money or assets. Indigenous Australians have valuable assets, including land and other rights ...

Rio Tinto's win-win model for northern and indigenous prosperity
The Australian
Large areas of Northern Australia are held under some form of indigenous title. Indigenous Australians are also an important pool of potential employees — and Rio Tinto is proud to be one of the biggest employers of indigenous men and woman in ...

RAP to help assist Aboriginal netballers
The West Australian
Marcia Ella-Duncan, the first Aboriginal netballer to represent Australia at senior level, is hugely disappointed that almost 30 years later only one more indigenous player has worn the Diamonds uniform. Ella-Duncan, who was to be inducted into the ...

Domain News
JLL moves to build Indigenous business
Domain News
Founded by cousins Shane Jacobs and Troy Rugless, descendants of the Wiradjuri​ Nation and members of the La Perouse Local Aboriginal Land Council, PSGH is one of Australia's leading Indigenous-owned companies. It employs 58 staff nationally and ...

The Australian
Indigenous mining services: Koodaideri Contracting waits for big miners
The Australian
Koodaideri's story is just one from a mining industry that has worked hard to improve relations with indigenous Australians, but which now is fighting to balance those efforts with the push to squeeze out costs as the iron ore price hits its lowest ...

ABC Message Stick
Call to put local Indigenous education in the spotlight
ABC Message Stick
"We've had citizenship for just over 40 years and we've been Australians for 40 years... so we've still got generations in our Aboriginal community that have got the baggage and the history of the downtrodden community and the dismissed. "Non ...

The Educator
Indigenous students 'closing education gap'
The Educator
"I think the department is negligent in its duty of care towards its principals," says one principal. In the past, Indigenous Australians have been less likely than non-Indigenous Australians to make it to the end of secondary school; however, that is ...

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The Australian
Rio Tinto iron ore chief Andrew Harding challenged over indigenous credentials
The Australian
Rio Tinto has long touted its credentials on indigenous issues, describing itself as one of the largest private sector employers of indigenous Australians, earlier this year joining the Recognise campaign for constitutional recognition of Aboriginal ...
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BHP and Banjima lock in 100-year dealMiningNews.net (subscription)
BHP Billiton: New agreement signed with Banjima peopleYour Mining News (press release)

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The Guardian
Warumpi Band's Sammy Butcher: from Indigenous rock's young gun to its elder ...
The Guardian
Warumpi Band's unique offering of Indigenous country rock meets American R&B, with songs sung in Luritja, Gumatj and English, earned them fans throughout Indigenous Australia and then more broadly across the country. A friendship with Midnight Oil ...

Indigenous Australian media collective wins €25000 Visible Award
Art Newspaper
The Karrabing Film Collective, whose members mostly live in a rural indigenous community in Australia's vast Northern Territory, was awarded the €25,000 prize. Their winning five-part work, Salt, consists of multi-layered collages of footage shot by ...

ArtsHub (subscription)
Kalpa Vriksha: Contemporary Indigenous and Vernacular Art of India
ArtsHub (subscription)
The Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (QAGOMA) is known for its outstanding collection of contemporary Indigenous Australian art. For The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8) 'it was important to broaden those ...

Indigenous Australian media collective wins €25000 Visible Award
Art Newspaper
The Karrabing Film Collective, whose members mostly live in a rural indigenous community in Australia's vast Northern Territory, was awarded the €25,000 prize. Their winning five-part work, Salt, consists of multi-layered collages of footage shot by ...

SBS
Is the education gap closing? More Indigenous students finish year 12 than ...
SBS
More Indigenous Australians than ever are finishing year 12. What's more, that trend has outpaced the growth of total year 12 student numbers. Historically, Indigenous Australians have been less likely than non-Indigenous Australians to make it to the ...

dailytelegraph.com.au
Indigenous All stars to take on the world
dailytelegraph.com.au
The Indigenous All Stars will tackle the Wayne Bennett-coached World All Stars for the first time at Suncorp Stadium on February 13 next year. Previously called the NRL All Stars, the World team will included four players from each of Australia, New ...
Indigenous All Stars to clash with WorldNRL.COM
NRL All Stars game to pit Indigenous team against World team in effort to ...ABC Online
NRL shakes up All Stars conceptSBS
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The Guardian
Indigenous imprisonment: money is better spent on prevention, expert says
The Guardian
Money spent on jailing Indigenous Australians should be funnelled instead into community programs to stop them offending in the first place, a leading academic has said. Australian National University professor Tom Calma made his call after a report ...

The Guardian
Crocodile eggs and 3D printing: could these be champions of the Top End's ...
The Guardian
They use their position to act as facilitators, working with community leaders to “create an autonomous sustainable future” as Notaras explained to Guardian Australia upon his appointment in June. “If we can get people involved in training and ...

ABC Local
Indigenous runner Eileen Byers completes New York Marathon
ABC Local
Eileen said the New Yorkers were a great support in helping the 2015 team complete the marathon. "We had our name on our shirts and Australia on the back so you'd get runners, running from behind us and saying 'come on Aussies' or 'come on Australia, ...

Report reveals thousands of Indigenous people with mental health issues are ...
ABC Online
A study finds that thousands of Indigenous people are being held in jails instead of receiving treatment or community support, with a failure to identify mental health issues early in life identified as a major concern.

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